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APBARATUS FOR UPHOLSTERING GUSHIONED SEATS. No. 2:30 ,911. Patented'July 10, 1883.

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GEORGE coin; or ASHLEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FORUPHOLSTERING CUSHIONED SEATS.

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Application filed January 5, 1883.

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Be it known that I, GEORGE COIL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashley, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Stuffing Railroad and other kinds of Car Cushions, of which the following is a specification. 1 My invention relates to an improved apparatus for upholstering cushions for railroadcar seats and other purposes; and it consists in combining with the permanent rectangular seat-frame, its canvas bottom, and cushioncover a removable frame composed of detachable sections which can be readily adjusted in their places before stuffing and readily removed from the cushion after stuffing, all of which will be fully understood from the following description, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is top view of the detachable sectional frame. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing the sectional frame in position for use on the permanent frame of a cushion, part of the cover of which is broken away.

The frame which I employ in the top covering of cushion while stufling the latter is of a rectangular form, andconsists of two parallel pieces, A A, and two transverse end pieces,

B B, the ends of which are fitted to the ends of the side pieces, A A, by means of shouldered joints (1., as shown in Fig. 1. The four pieces forming the frame are detachable, for apurpose hereinafter explained.

G designates the permanent rigid frame of the seatcushions, which is of the exact size and shape of the detachable sectional spreading frame or former above described. The top of the frame 0 has tightly secured to it a canvas, D, and to the two sides and one end of the said frame canvas or other material, E, is tacked to form the top or cover of the cushion.

The operation is as follows: Suitable springs are first secured to and properly disposed over Fig. 3 1s Model.)

tacked to the two sides and one end of thepermanent frame 0. Previous to stretching and tacking the covering E to the sides of frame 0 the cross-piece B is laid across one end of this frame. After the covering is secured, as above described, the shouldered ends of the side pieces, A A, are adjusted against the ends of the cross-piece B. The-opposite end piece B is then adjusted in its place against the shoulders at the ends of the side pieces next to the open end of the cushion. The space between the cover E and canvas D is now filled or stuffed with hair or any other suitable material, the filling being introduced at the open end of the cushion over the locking-strip B. Vhen the cushion is properly filled, these three strips A A B areremoved through the filling-opening, which is then closed by tacking the free end of the cover to the frame 0. A few tacks are removed from one corner of the opposite end of the frame 0, the strip B removed through the opening and the latter again closed, as before.

By the process above described of upholstering seat-cushions any desired number of them can be made of the same size and shape,

the sectional frame showing as a pattern or former for allowing the objects above stated to be readily and quickly accomplished, even by a workman of ordinary skill.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

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' GEORGE COIL. Vitnesses WILLIAM F. IMLAY, GEORGE Horn. 

